Tuesday, March 21, 2017

This week we had another
baptism who is part of the family that we recently baptized last week!! We are
super happy for him! Oh man I loved teaching this little guy!!! He is super
funny and light hearted!! He reminds me so much of my little brother! He loves
to joke around with us and likes to have races with his sister on who can
answer the Baptismal Questions fastest haha!!

I also had changes to
Guayaquil this week, which is insanely hot here. But I freaking love my new
sector and job!! I got put in the Office, which may not sound all that fun, but
so far it has been awesome!! We have to do so much for the mission but at the
same time we get to know everyone in the mission and its super fun to be with
the assistants and secretaries!!

To Mom:

I had changes to Guayaquil
and am now working in the Office!! I’m
sure that doesn’t sound like fun or anything that big. But it really is kind of
huge. There are 4 of us and the 2 assistants
in charge of the other 160 misionarios! Plus I’m a lot closer to the doctors
and have an appointment with them tomorrow at 3.:00 to find out what is going
on exactly. So sounds like I’m going to get a lot better a lot faster!!

Monday, March 13, 2017

We got blessed to have a
multi Zone conference this week and our mission president came down and fed us
spiritually! (And physically ;)

I was kind of super sick and
our mission presidents wife was concerned that I’d be cold so she had me wear
President Moreno’s suit the whole time and everyone was making jokes all day
about me being president (he had me and my companion do a practice lesson in
front of everyone and he started to make a ton of jokes about it too haha!)

Then this week has been crazy
cuz we’ve been planning for 4 baptisms this weekend and have been working hard
trying to get everything ready!Unfortunately
the youngest brother of the family (they are all cousins/ sisters) drank coffee
that his grandma gave him literally the day before his baptism. But he is still
super excited to get baptized next Saturday!!!

The 3 baptisms we had, are
all incredibly smart and friendly girls!! Their mom is a less active of more
than 10 years, but she began to pray again asking God to help her find a way to
return to church. That same week we saw them outside and decided to talk to her.
Funny how a small act can lead to such a great blessing huh? She is super
strong and is very supportive of her daughters getting baptized. I have no
doubt that she will be faithful for the rest of her life. Her oldest daughter
Aylin is very strong and is reading the Book of Mormon like a machine!! She
told us this week that she wants to be a missionary in 2 years! I cant lie, its
my dream to baptize someone who will one day be a missionary as well, and I
have much faith that I may have found one!!

Her little sister Gissel is so
freaking cute! I love passing by this family because they are always sooo happy
and love to laugh and read the Book of Mormon with us!

Monday, March 6, 2017

Sorry I don’t have much time
to write this week but we had a great week and rolled in with a baptism, 5 investigators
in sacrament meeting and have 3 baptisms planned for the next week! All is well
here in the land of endless rain and mud!! haha I’m loving life and the mission
is going well!

I hope you all have a great week!

Sorry for the low quality of
the photos... my memory card got messed up on the camera but hope you all can
see how happy little Genesis is!!

The reason I titled this week
as Baptizing a Penguin is because little children here are all called penguins
haha!

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Hey momma I’m on now. Not too
much happened this week with the whole being locked in the house for 4 days. We
got permission to leave the house for 1 hour each day to exercise in the
morning and my district (me, my companion and the 2 sisters) decided to play
basketball every day, then a family Valareza offered to make us breakfast each
day so we went to their house after each morning and spent a lot of time
talking to them! They are sooo awesome and are definitely my favorite family
here in Santa Rosa! And it doesn’t hurt that they are super rich and have their
own car which is super nice and they like to give us lots of rides and pass by our
investigators houses too. The dad, Yesid, is the president of the Hombres
Jovenes or young mens and the mom is presitenta de la Primaria or primary. They
are super strong in the gospel and have a son serving in Peru. Their two
daughters are both very sweet and very funny. I enjoyed every second of being
with them this week. I also have been kinda sick these last few days so its
been nice doing absolutely nothing but sleeping (like literally every second of
the day ha-ha) love you lots momma and I’ve been thinking about you tons this
week!